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Re: How I hacked modern vending machines

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Post by GFischer »

fatnoah wrote: post #75
tokyodude wrote: post #69

On the one hand it's interesting to see the machines get hacked. On the other hand I love living in a country where the machines generally don't get hacked or vandalized because it means we get to have the convenience of more machines.

My favorite vending machine moment in college occurred when the person stocking the soda vending machine forgot to lock it. We all enjoyed free soda and, most impressively IMHO, no one took advantage and tried to take all of the soda from themselves. People just treated it like a refrigerator and would grab a soda when they were so inclined.

I remember my mind being blown when I saw a newspaper dispensing machine in Canada for the first time...

That would absolutely not work in South America.

You can clearly see which tourists are from our part of the world in Europe where paying for transport is "optional"...

Re: How I hacked modern vending machines

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Re: How I hacked modern vending machines

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Re: How I hacked modern vending machines

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Post by lifthrasiir »

tokyodude wrote: post #68
cphoover wrote: post #43

I don't understand why the vending machine would trust the client to tell it how much credit the user had without first verifying from an upstream centralized db. This is bad design in my eyes...

AFAIK this is how Felica works which is the system for many of the transit systems across the world as well as a payment system built into feature phone since 2005, Android since 5-6 years ago and iPhone since iPhone7 in Japan and 8 everywhere else. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FeliCa I don't know for a fact that it works without a DB but I do know that they exist in places that don't seem to access to a DB and they…

It works without a DB as far as I know, and there are handful incidents where people knowingly blocked a connection to the payment system to charge the card with no money spent. Primary security measures against fraudulent transport cards had been blacklisting, which seems to work well enough as there are not much hacked cards.

Re: How I hacked modern vending machines

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Post by mkesper »

leowoo91 wrote: post #7
mkesper wrote: post #2

How I hacked a totally insecure android vending machine wallet app would be more to the point, but nice anyway.

Do you guys also feel like many people started to become too high level, not getting satisfied with simple app hacks? Hello future.

Sorry didn't mean it negative. But "hacking a vending machine" sounded much more like touching the real hardware. Teaches an important story about app security, in any case.

Re: How I hacked modern vending machines

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Post by maaark »

innocentfelon wrote: post #54

Val Kilmer did the same thing to a coffee vending machine in the movie Real Genius . Instead of using Android, he used a freezer and a small hacksaw to section off coin-sized slugs from a frozen rod. Have to give the points to Kilmer’s character because in addition to doing it first, his crime left almost no trail and didn’t come with felony exposure (most juries would not believe ice slugs are counterfeiting) Making…

That's a dumb movie plot. Vending machines measure and weigh coins. A coin-sized chunk of ice does not weigh the same as a coin.

Re: How I hacked modern vending machines

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Post by leowoo91 »

mkesper wrote: post #87
leowoo91 wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you guys also feel like many people started to become too high level, not getting satisfied with simple app hacks? Hello future.

Sorry didn't mean it negative. But "hacking a vending machine" sounded much more like touching the real hardware. Teaches an important story about app security, in any case.

I really mean baseline is just getting higher among devs, that wasn't case before the smart phones were that popular (ive read your comment as 'challenge' is there, not negative)

Re: How I hacked modern vending machines

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Post by tokyodude »

fatnoah wrote: post #75
tokyodude wrote: post #69

On the one hand it's interesting to see the machines get hacked. On the other hand I love living in a country where the machines generally don't get hacked or vandalized because it means we get to have the convenience of more machines.

My favorite vending machine moment in college occurred when the person stocking the soda vending machine forgot to lock it. We all enjoyed free soda and, most impressively IMHO, no one took advantage and tried to take all of the soda from themselves. People just treated it like a refrigerator and would grab a soda when they were so inclined.

I'm happy I live in a place where if the machine broke people would likely not steal the sodas.

I find it disappointing so many cultures steal so easily if it's convenient.

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